In a city founded by the son of a former slave, at a park that bears his name, more than 100 people gathered in downtown Centralia Saturday to acknowledge and celebrate the nation’s newest …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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6/19/23
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The Onalaska woman convicted of stealing a substantial amount of mail in Lewis County and surrounding areas was sentenced Friday to just under five years in prison.
Amber K. Ingram, 40, …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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6/17/23
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In one Monty Python’s Flying Circus sketch, John Cleese plays a Robin Hood-like highwayman who steals to redistribute wealth, but only in one currency: lupines.
While useless to the …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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6/16/23
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If you asked Fords Prairie Elementary School Principal David Roberts what he thought Noah Markstrom, a Tiny Tiger who died at age 6 from brain cancer in November 2019, was doing now, he has an answer …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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6/15/23
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Of the 14 Centralia School District staff members who are retiring at the end of the school year, only one can boast a 40-year career within the district.
That employee is maintenance …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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6/15/23
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The battle of Pine Street Plaza in Centralia was won with pride last Saturday.
On one side, there was a neo-Nazi fight group — a self-proclaimed white supremacist, Swastika-sporting …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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6/14/23
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After a group of self-identified white supremacists showed up at a Pride celebration last weekend in downtown Centralia, city officials spoke out during the Centralia City Council meeting Tuesday …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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6/14/23
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A woman accused of setting fire to her home in Cinebar on Monday and ramming her car into a responding fire engine is now facing felony charges in Lewis County Superior Court.
The woman, …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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6/13/23
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A 29-year-old Cinebar woman possibly suffering from a “mental breakdown” is accused of setting fire to her home in Cinebar on Monday, according to the Lewis County Sheriff’s …
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By The Chronicle staff
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6/13/23
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Centralia’s Pine Street Plaza was an explosion of color, music and joy on Saturday as the Lewis County LGBTQ+ community and its allies gathered to celebrate Pride Month.
Pride …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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6/12/23
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Sandwiched between red and white Forest Service trucks, reporters with The Chronicle were escorted through the Iron Creek Campground off Forest Service Road 25 in Randle on Thursday.
On …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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6/9/23
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Following the Centralia City Council’s decision in February to permanently close the Pearl Street Pool, city workers began filling it in with dirt to avoid “attractive nuisance …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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6/9/23
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An abandoned residence and an attached outbuilding in the 1200 block of Centralia Avenue were destroyed in a fire Wednesday evening.
The house was unoccupied at the time of the incident …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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6/8/23
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In records from the Lewis County Sheriff’s Office, Detective Jamey McGinty rejects statements by a local veterinarian who, he wrote, alluded “to the fact that I, or someone involved with …
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By Isabel Vander Stoep / isabel@chronline.com
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6/7/23
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A former Lewis County Corrections Bureau employee accused of stealing over $10,000 from the department while she was employed there between 2019 and 2020 will serve nine years in prison, a Lewis …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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6/7/23
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Eighty-one years, six months and one day ago as of Wednesday, the Japanese Imperial Navy unleashed its surprise attack on Pearl Harbor. One of the first ships moored at the U.S. Navy base to be …
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By Owen Sexton / owen@chronline.com
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6/7/23
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A 60-year-old woman was significantly injured when a vehicle crashed into her house in the 2400 block of North Pearl Street in Centralia on Monday afternoon.
The vehicle, a 2008 Nissan …
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By Emily Fitzgerald / emily@chronline.com
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6/6/23
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